I never would have guessed Ethan Peck didn't consider himself a singer. What a great use of his voice! This interview was a wonderful addition to watching the episode.

OMG we MUST talk about the Klingon Boy Band moment!! So brilliant, and the way they brought out the dancers and the captain's chair slides back, no I was done! ROFL!! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

I've rewatched "Subspace Rhapsody" many times and the whole family listens to the soundtrack in the car. The writing and music was brilliant! My daughter and I agree that this was the best TV musical in recent history. I love musicals and I love all things Star Trek, but I didn't know how this was going to be integrated storywise. I will admit that I had my doubts when I first heard about this episode, but I'm really glad I was wrong ! Great job you two! :)

The incredible creativity and skill these two artists have is simply remarkable. I wish Gene Roddenberry could have seen and heard this.

I was so afraid they would jump the shark on this one, but these guys, along with the writers and cast, are so brilliant. It was wonderful.

I love the Spock lyrics!! I solve for YYYY!! I'm the X! Math and emotion!! So brilliant! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

In Chapel's song -- "If I need to leave you, I won't fight it" -- it works so well because it is cruel. Had she been able to just talk to Spock, she wouldn't have been as open, sparing his feelings. But as she was "under the spell" of the fold, she had to say it.

I typically find musicals cheesy, and generally don’t like them. But this episode shocked and amazed me! The music and the lyrics were fantastic, and the fact that the cast that I’ve grown fond of were singing was even more amazing. Great job Kay and Tom! Deserves an award. You both are so talented.

This was a really cool behind-the-scenes view of the episode. I really enjoyed it. The pain and anger that came out in the lyrics of Spock's (I'm the X) piece really provides a justification for the character's predominantly stoic (i.e. Vulcan) disposition in all of the Trek shows/films. It really hurts being dumped. Also, this episode has spawned a really clever quote for the current generation of Star Trek fans. "You've never heard K-pop until you've heard it sung in the original Klingon" I don't know who thought that up (it wasn't me) but from an old Trek fan, that is hilarious.

This was a fantastic interview to watch. My dad and I (who both love Star Trek) watched this episode together and we both greatly enjoyed it. We laughed so much when Spock started singing. I would also say the K-pop works better for the Klingons since they had mentioned the singing as being "their dishonor." I don't think Klingon opera would have been as dishonorable since they would have accepted it as part of their culture. Thank you for this amazing collaboration!

Brilliant! Emmy worthy for sure. My favorite episode of all the Star Trek Series and that’s saying something as I been a fan since 1966. You two nailed it! 🤯🥰

Yes! Rebecca and Gilbert & Sullivan was a great easter egg especially after the Short Trek where she sings Model of a Modern Major General! So good!! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

28th as a Boomer who grew up watching TOS as new episodes... and I loved Most things Trek...I LOVED this....and im not much into musicals....what made this special was the story / how they Knew they were singing and why....it all made sense.... all the songs were great..my Fave was by no#1 & Lu'An .. about SECRETS..... Amazing!

All the songs are amazing - but La'an's song is definitely the best at every level.

I saw a fan spotlight at Rose City Comic Con yesterday (23SEPT2023) with Jess Bush and she said that her only singing experience was in a choir she was in as a kid back in Melbourne. Could've fooled me!

I need to know to what extent Captain Pike was meant to channel Neil Diamond. You can TOTALLY hear it, especially in the finale!! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

Just found your podcast today and this interview is absolutely amazing! This is my all-time favorite episode out of ALL the Star Trek series all the way back to the original with William Shatner. Thank you for this interview. Knowing the back story about the songs for Subspace Rhapsody is great. I've listened to the songs over and over again, now I'll go back and listen to them AGAIN.

Thank you for the interview. I love Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody!!! I have been a fan of Star Trek for many decades and this is one of my favorite episodes.

You both really hit it out of the park with this Star Trek episode! Everything was fantastic and it's one my favorite episodes across all series! Thanks for your talent and inspiration!

This is "Broadway quality music and lyrics". Many transitions in all the pieces of this episode....in a way, it tells the story as a musical ballad. Pure Genius. Celia Rose Gooding knocked it right out of the park. Great Job Kay and Tom you have done amazing work, and it is hard to believe you had a five-week deadline.

Would love to hear those demos

When I first heard about this Star Trek, the musical, I thought it was the most preposterous of ideas. Then, there was so much KZfaq about it, I, like the Klingons said”Aaarrrraaahhhh” and jumped into it. Wow! It is so good. So well done. The score and lyrics and totally in a strange new realm and it is beautiful . Thank you!

This episode was fabulous!! Usually tv musicals are not interesting for me.....but this (I just watched it) was remarkable.....the quality/lyrics of the music was so unique.....SO many of those songs are stand alone quality....I loved it!! The cast have such incredible talent......and the Klingons were hysterical 😂

When I heard the first time, that there would be a musical episode I was a little bit concerned. But for me it turned out this episode was a masterpiece. I was really wondering what people are able to create such an outstanding Star Trek episode. So this interview was such a pleasusre to watch. Thank you so much for the video. For me Kay Hanley and Tom Polce are geniuses! Maybe there is a chance to invite them to the german convention Fedcon. That would be a huge einrichment for the next Fedcon next year. Kind regards from Cologne, Germany 🤗

It makes me laugh, cry, sigh for my friends on the USS Enterprise! I LOVED IT!❤❤❤ Thank you so much! I broke and healed my heart! Thank you!

I loved this interview! This episode of Startrek, Strange New Worlds was my favorite this season. The songwriting was so well done and clever. The actors did such a great job. I loved hearing the backstory.

I listen to the soundtrack every day! Thank you, GUYS!!!

Can't wait to hear the story of Spock's breakup song. Love all the math analogies in that! I solve for Y [WHY did she leave me?!] ... I'm the X [ex]. LOVE THAT!! And very interesting choice to have Chapel's melody and Spock's melody to be two variations on the same theme!! So good!💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

This is amazing....so excited you got to share the behind the scenes with the world!

What a pleasure to see and hear from the composers of Subspace Rhapsody. What they've created is lyrically genius and for an old trekie the best thing in the genre for years. Probably one of the most memorable Treks ever🙂

Thanks so much for this wonderful interview! I've been wondering about the people who wrote the songs for this fabulous episode, but everyone said they couldn't interview Kay and Tom because of the actors' strike. I don't know how you managed to do it when everyone else said it couldn't be done, but I was thrilled to meet them and to hear just how seriously they took it. Great job on a fabulous episode!

This was absolutely outstanding! You got yourself a new listener, thanks for this amazing interview! I learned so much about the writing process and the show, this was so well done. 😊

The music is absolutely fantastic and they should be so proud. I've been listening to the album at least once a day since the day it released. It's so fun and emotional! ❤ amazing job creating it!

Excellent interview thank you! Thanks for doing the calculus. I believe you have solved for X in this musical equation!

I love watching you both create the most fantastic episode I have ever seen...a whole new level... forever grateful... you created a completely new way of communicating!!!! Love every moment...thank you so much ❤❤❤

You all did the most amazing job on this!!! Ive been a Trekjunkie since I was 9, in 1968, & was also raised on a diet of movie musicals (have at least 50 memorized). I am now addicted to "Subspace Rhapsody," memorized in in a few listenings. Cant get certain tunes out o my head. Thank you!!! An incredible job, & fully validated in both Trekverse & MusicalVerse. (& thank Goddess Lin Miranda Manuel had nothing to with this, which I knew a dozen bars in!!!) Words cannot express how much I luv this, & how perfect it was!

Brilliant episode, both in the show and here on this podcast interview. Thank you!

Since the episode aired, I've been pining to find THIS EXACT INTERVIEW. As soon as the credits rolled, I began hunting. I needed more, and couldn't believe there wasn't already a comprehensive behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of every single scene. It was so deeply entertaining, so how could there not be?! Tom and Kay, this is pure *treasure*, hearing about your process, how it all unfolded, and I hope you realize how many people-even those of us who aren't exactly fans of musicals-experienced so much unanticipated joy while watching and re-watching this. Thank you so much for creating this thing. It will live on for generations of Star Trek fans to get pulled into.

That episode needs to be made into a Broadway Musucal! I would buy tickets to that!

Absolutely astonishingly brilliant and relatable, so moving!!! All of the songs were so perfect for each character...

OMG we need to see the Klingon Opera!!! alternative 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

OMG this is so awesome! I love how Uhura's song starts with Gregorian chants!! That song is so touching, it tells such a story of how Uhura is grieving the loss of her family, and figuring out how to go on without everyone she loves, everyone who loves her. The lyrics showing that loss are so poetic and heartfelt. Boy does Celia sing it!! So good!! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨

I think the Pelia, Uhuru, and Spock singing in a specifically posed way, reminds me of a “Bohemian Rhapsody” pose minus one. Or, it’s an American Gothic pose plus one. 😂

Thank the two of you for some truly amazing music. And in five weeks, with all the different singers! It is truly amazing what you accomplished.

I was one of those trekkies that refused to watch this episode after I saw it was a musical episode. My mind raced back to Ally McBeal's 2000 Christmas musical. I never watched the Buffy musical episode and I tried to just now . . . but the songs didn't leave any impressions. When I finally watched Subspace Rhapsody, that song about keeping secrets had my arms tingling and hairs standing on its ends. There are only a couple of songs that have ever done that. Maurice White's I Miss You, Atlantic Star's Masterpiece and Howard Hewitt's Say Amen. Each time it happens, it takes several days to get those songs out of my mind so I could move on. I'm on day 3 now, darn it. The vocal ranges of the actresses singing The Paradigm and Connection songs just blew me away. Trekky loyalist will probably disapprove the episode due to breaking Star Trek tradition of serious tones and suspense, something established by TOS and followed by NG, Voyager, DS9 and even Enterprise. At the same time, changes are inevitable, not always for the better, but the challenge to break new ground persists. If I were to rate Subspace Rhapsody by its own merits, Star Trek tradition not withstanding, you two hit the ball right out of the galaxy. It really did break new ground. I guess there isn't much more I can add except to say Thank you for the enjoyable experience.

Truly brilliant songwriting that fits the cast/characters so well. Thanks for this interview with Kay and Tom and for asking some of the questions that I've had since first hearing and seeing the episode. As a pianist, I would love to see "Subspace Rhapsody" available as a sheet music folio available for purchase.

Perfect interview! I loved the episode and immediately wanted to know about the songwriters. If these two don't get emmys then it's a travesty. They should be really proud of this work. I couldn't believe there would be Broadway quality songs for one ep of a tv show. Then to find out it happened in 5 weeks I'm astonished. They sound like a great fun team too.

Ich hoffe es kommt eine CD , bisher leider nur als MP3 bei Amazon 😢

Ah-ha! I was right. I thought there was a melody in I'm Ready that was basically inverted in I'm the X.

Who orchestrated the vocals for the choral Star Trek theme? Love it! 5:13 And the orchestration! ❤️

It's been several weeks since I first saw the episode, and I still wake up many mornings with the songs in my head, and listen to it regularly. I really love how it allowed the actors to show their emotional range, face, body language, they really got to show their stuff in this episode.

Amazing they didn't show this on Will Wheaton's show. Such an incredible episode!

songs were great

I was skeptical if they could pull it off. I worried it would be way too corny, even for Star Trek. But they pulled it off amazingly. It worked within the reality of the show and the songs were fantastic too.

Excellent interview 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

How cool

Great interview about one of my favorite Star Trek episodes ever. I noticed something in the grand finale and I wondered if it was put there as an easter egg for musicians. When the counter gets to 300 Uhura leaps out of her chair and the time signature changes from 3/4 to 4/4. My immediate thought was oh, they need 344, so that's 44 left to go, so Uhura's like "ok we need 4/4." I assumed that was a collaboration between the composers and the writers. I am crazy?

I was hoping for a cameo from Lyn Manuel Miranda and an homage to Let's Do The Timewarp Again!

This music is so amazing on so many levels! Thanks for spotlighting the composers!

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it was a GREAT episode! (ignore the naysayers whom call themselves die hard trekies) THANK YOU!

While they include instrumental versions in the album release?

Do you know if Lakshore Records is ever going to release a CD of the soundtrack to Subspace Rhapsody? I tried emailing them and I never got an answer.

I love musicals, but TV Show musical numbers aren’t always the best. But in this case, every song was amazing and splendid. Congrats! Ps: the Klingon got me good

I would like to here the story of I am the X...

I would have given a Grammy Awards to everyone... But I'm just an X.

The worst, most ridiculous, most unwanted episode of star trek ever!! This episode was the final straw, I no longer watch this train wreck !!!! Please cancel this show!

An extraordinary job of composition for a monumental challenge that you guys had to overcome. Superbly done and splendidly executed. The whole episode was an absolute joy. The whole world should share in this whimsical extravaganza!

I love the sound track! My Trek friends and I love it, play it alot, and congratulations to the songwriters because the soundtrack is charting on the music charts! 💜🖖🏿🪐💫✨